apparatus [ap-uh-rat-uhs]
ap·pa·rat·us [ap-uh-rat-uhs] noun
A combination of instruments, machinery, or tools built for a particular purpose. Early cinema: the trade's term for its cameras, projectors, and printers. "The director yelled 'Camera!' and the cameraman began cranking his apparatus."
Hand-cranked motion picture cameras of the silent era, and the stories behind them.
A Camera With No Name.
America, 1920’s
A Camera With No Name.
This mystery camera was used in the 1920’s to shoot a few short films in New Jersey and the east coast of America, but who is her maker?